| Show the work novel writers do the writing of novels asin england more mor e nearly a profession than any other work in literature the novelists though luci incidentally dentally they may write poems or papers find their life work and their livelihood in fiction writing and most of them rule their lives to that end the reader who skims novel in the swift hours of a few days forgets by reason of its naturalness the toil that has gone to make it the mere writing out of a long along novel perhaps two iwo or three times over is a mechanical labor that would sorel sorely try the patience of most patient people and this Is only the final and outward expression of months of toil and years of study and experience that must po go to the making ot 01 the book anthony toe roost most business like of novelists who once confirmed to me the statement that he be kept one or two completed novels ahead of current demand in his bis desk accomplished his extraordinary productiveness as a by calling being for most of his life a busy postoffice post office official but he was an exception to the rule that novel writing wr itina is the most absorbing of callings charles reade collected incidents as herbert spencer collected collated sociological data and his study was almost like the counting room of a man of affair its pigeon holed papers pacers and scrap books what hearts blood is put into a real novel what nervous exhaustion comes with its climax and ending no man can fully tell dickens has confided something of this inward tragedy to the reader in his bis pathetic record of his wanderings about the streets of paris after the death of little paul it is this which gives to the novelist a contemporaneous human interest beyond that of his bis books and makes readers eager to know of the personality and methods and look into the faces of their favorite story tellers |
